Modelling the Metropolis The Architectural Model in Victorian London.

• Auteur principal: Wells, Matthew (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Zurich gta Verlag 2023
• Collection: Architectural Knowledge
• Sujets: AMA; AMX; ACV; HBLL; Architectural models; London architecture; Victorian age; History of architecture
• Accès en ligne: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Architectural models made nineteenth-century London. As the city grew it became the global centre of finance, industrial capitalism, and the British Empire. New buildings, urban spaces, and networks of infrastructure were demanded, constructed, and rebuilt. Models were a crucial medium of communicat...